# Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Learning Network Hub Site

> **NIH VA I50** · VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM · 2020 · —

## Abstract

Healthcare systems that deliver high-quality care are characterized by systematic approaches to capacity-
building for improvement. Learning healthcare systems use quality improvement (QI) and implementation
science methods to identify, assess, and improve quality issues, and to support system-wide spread of
successful innovations. Evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) is a form of continuous quality
improvement that is directed at supporting learning healthcare system goals. The strategy aims to improve
implementation of programs and practices in delivery systems by ensuring that QI initiatives benefit from the
best scientific evidence as well as from clinical operations leadership, data, and expertise. EBQI promotes
ongoing alignment of QI innovation design across the research-clinical-patient partnership; across regional-,
facility-, and clinic-level leaders; and across disciplinary and programmatic boundaries. EBQI initiatives have
resulted in improved uptake of evidence-based clinical practices such as collaborative care, supported
employment, and the patient-centered medical home, and have supported national, regional, and local clinical
policy development. The objective of the proposed EBQI Implementation Strategy Learning Network Hub Site
(“EBQI Hub”) is to equip stakeholders in various VA roles (policymakers, operations managers, frontline
providers and staff, and researchers) with the training and resources needed to apply EBQI. In doing so, the
EBQI Hub will support increased implementation, scale-up, spread, and sustainability of effective practices,
with the goal of strengthening VA as a Learning Healthcare System. The Specific Aims are to (1) provide two
cycles of virtual EBQI training per year to at least 100 VA leaders, providers, and staff (~50/cycle), and at least
four researchers (~2/cycle); (2) provide EBQI tools, resources, and guidance on a SharePoint site and via a
virtual help desk; (3) Provide six months of intensive guided mentorship to at least four trainees/trainee teams
annually; and (4) Using mixed methods, evaluate the: (a) utilization, usefulness, and feasibility of Hub
components; (b) Hub’s impacts on participants’ QI confidence, knowledge, and skills; (c) effectiveness of the
EBQI Hub in fostering QI projects that reflect both scientific evidence and delivery system priorities; and (d)
impacts of the mentored QI projects. The EBQI Hub focuses on didactic and applied hands-on training in EBQI
theory and practice. Using the curriculum developed with VA QUERI start-up funds in FY18 and guided
conceptually by a theory of QI spread, the EBQI Hub will provide virtual EBQI training nationally using
distance-learning technology. The training is comprised of four 90-minute live webinar modules; an EBQI
SharePoint site with recorded webinars, training materials, and QI tools; and a virtual help desk staffed by
EBQI Hub expert faculty. The EBQI Hub will also provide six months of guided mentorship to at least four
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9836719
- **Project number:** 1I50HX002864-01
- **Recipient organization:** VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
- **Principal Investigator:** ALISON B. HAMILTON
- **Activity code:** I50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2019-10-01 → 2025-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9836719

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9836719, Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Learning Network Hub Site (1I50HX002864-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9836719. Licensed CC0.

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